Why is news newz instead of noose like it's spelled?

[IronWing]

A radio announcer (one who announces on the radio) pronounced it noose yesterday which got me to thinking, "He's right."

 

[cbrunny]

Many Americans pronounce dot-com as daat-caam. There are no "a"s in dot-com.

Why does anyone pronounce anything any way?

 

[vi edit]

Related topic...how the hell did we get "so" out of "sew".

 

[vi edit]

Many Americans pronounce dot-com as daat-caam. There are no "a"s in dot-com.

Why does anyone pronounce anything any way?

That's an accent...like heavy New Yorker. Us normal people in the midwest say it right.

 

[feralkid]

Related topic...how the hell did we get "so" out of "sew".

Laugh?

 

[rudeguy]

The honest answer to most of the questions is: Fuck Britain

We change a lot of spellings and pronunciations when we broke away. There's also a ton of bleed over from French, which had bleed over from Greek.

 

[Ken g6]

The plural of new is news.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Us normal people in the midwest say it right.

Unless you're upper Midwest, like rural Wisconsin/Minnesota, then it's Daht Cahm.

 

[vi edit]

Yoopers don't count.

 

[dullard]

The plural of new is news.

Exactly.

noun, (usually used with a singular verb)
1. the presentation of a report on recent or new events

 

[Fritzo]

American inflection has changed the pronunciation of a lot of words. Oregano, water, and garage are others that come to mind.

 

[sandorski]

Because you touche yourself at night.

 

[NoTine42]

Because we were dumb enough to learn our language from an institution that can't even pronounce their own name: school

 

[zinfamous]

Related topic...how the hell did we get "so" out of "sew".

sough?

 

[BlitzPuppet]

It is because you touch yourself at night

 

[Phoenix86]

aluminium

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Words that end in "s" tend to have a drawn out "z" sound rather than a short "s" sound. Think about any plural word you can; bananas, apples, shoes, cafeterias, octopodes, boobies, etc. They would sound ridiculous if you pronounced them with a short "s." Why should "news" be different?

 

[moonbogg]

This thread makes me snewz. Funny from me to you.

 

[dank69]

I blame the Joose

 

[Vdubchaos]

I'm just wondering why in the world does anyone still watches American "news".....

 

[Dirigible]

I blame the Joose

Immigrants! Listening to raps and shooting all the jobs.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It is pronounced right, how do you say new? How do you say new with an s? News. Not Nou, but New.

 

[Perknose]

Many Germans speak excellent English, but many of them still get tripped up pronouncing "southern," and some others put an extra syllable in "clothes."

 

[Ichinisan]

She sews shirts.

She soze shirts.

 

[Ichinisan]

Few.

Fue?

Phew!